Jayson Stark of ESPN has a piece on how Brandon Inge lightened up some brutal running drills with a fantasy walk-off homer.

Jeff Sullivan of Fangraphs posted a team-by-team breakdown of the catcher's spot, and ranks the Bucs #23 in MLB. He wrote "...this position shouldn’t be an embarrassment. That’s a step up..."

Italy was eliminated from the WBC. They held late-inning leads in the first two games of the double-elimination round, but manager Marco Mazziero opted not to use Jason Grilli, and Team Italia dropped them both. So Grilli got a nice vacation and should be back to work shortly.

The Bucs placed seven prospects on Minor League Ball John Sickel's Top 150 List, with four being ranked in his Top 50.

Today in Bucco history: In 1969, after recovering from a right shoulder injury, Roberto Clemente banged his left wing chasing a foul pop during a spring game. He started the year 0-for-12, but roared back with a .345 BA, second to Pete Rose’s .348 in a race that went down to the last day. And in 2003, OF Kenny Lofton inked a one year, $1.025M deal with the Pirates. He didn’t last that long, as he was traded to the Cubs on July
23rd with Aramis Ramirez for not very much in Dave Littlefield's most infamous salary dump.

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